Is 410 hp too weak to haul grain ?

Will it do it, sure. If speed right. If you look at older trucks you saw Alot of 4 11,4.56 even 5.56 rears with small motors compared to today. They pulled slow and ran slow.

Torque moves loads, hp keeps it going ..

Example a kid with a 10 ft bar can lift a 500 lb slab. Bar equals torque kid equals hp.
Now a body builder can lift same slab with bar and hold it all day.

With lower hp expect bad mpg less motor life

 

Hi spyder, don't laugh. One of the companies I worked for ordered 5 new Louisville Ford tandem road tractors. The boss must have heard that schpiel from a slick salesperson, and had the trucks equipped with L-10 270 hp Cummins motors ( for hauling 44K lbs. of cheese) The drivers shook their heads, and since we were getting paid by the hour, if they wanted us rolling down the road at 52 mph, ( 35 on hills) foot to the floor, with 44 in the box, fine by us, but the boss couldn't understand why they were burned out at 100K miles.

 

Yes but that was a very long time ago. The L10 was back when when a 318 detroit was considered a nice powered engine. Today you can't hardly find an engine under 400 horses.

 

Sorry, the 318 was never considered a "nice powered engine" None that I drove, anyway. As far as I'm concerned, they were all boat anchors.

 

A fleet of detroits were all parked at the same lot every evening for 10+ years. 2 years ago they discovered an oil deposit on that land and the guy is a millionaire.....

 

80,000 pounds is 40 tons x 10 horsepower per ton is 400 horsepower which most tractors I've seen out here are spec'd to 400-500 horsepower.

 

Wouldn't a good 'ol Hemorrhoid cushion do? Lol

 

Of course, THAT'S how Jed Clampett got rich.

 

410 HP will be fine, back in the late 80's early 90's I was a beer hauler hauling 45,000 to 47,000 we had NTC 350 cummins in Pete 362's and 3406E 310hp in a bunch of " cornbinder's " or should I say Farmall's, sorry to offend anybody, they weren't the first one's across the finish line but they crossed it with no problems.

 

Hi rockn'roll, no foul. Cornbinders, hay balers, Farmall's, are all ok. We know who we are in the Badger. 350, hey? Some guys had all the luck. 1st semi job I had, was a R model Mack, with a 300+ ( never did figure out what the "+"meant, as 270 Cats would leave me in the dust.) Mack, same thing, wasn't back 1st to the yard, but, I never remember being stranded. Took a little longer ( and the "spare" Mack had a 237, took even longer) but good ol' trucks.